Author: Daniel snow
What unrevealed details have made Trump so intent on preventing further disclosure? Source link
The question of how to be a public broadcaster for everyone isn’t going to get easier, but the British broadcaster can do better in the attempt. Source link
new video loaded: How Epstein Could Divide RepublicanstranscriptBacktranscriptHow Epstein Could Divide Republicans“There’s not going to be a flood of Republicans fleeing Trump,” argues the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie in this episode of “The Opinions.” Instead, he predicts “small calculations here and there” from Republicans who might start to vote against Trump.There’s not going to be a flood of Republicans fleeing Trump. What there will be are small calculations here and there. Willingness to say: I don’t think I’m going to support this. I think with this bill to force the White House to release the Epstein files passes the House,…
new video loaded: Trump’s Worst Enemy? Himself.transcriptBacktranscriptTrump’s Worst Enemy? Himself.After this week’s release of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and Trump’s questionable behavior, it seems that the president’s public standing is declining. “It makes it look like you have published a book titled ‘If I Did It,’” Jamelle Bouie says. Ultimately, Trump can’t help himself — and neither can MAGA.This right now might be the high-water mark at this point of Trump’s stature with the public. I don’t see it going up in any meaningful sense. I think it’s going to continue to go down because there’s mismanagement of the federal government,…
You have a conservative movement that has embraced, as you said before, an extremely provocative tone, a tone of open bigotry in certain cases. And basically, the deal that the pro-Israel right thought it could make is we can engage in a good deal of racist demagogy, we’re OK with it, especially maybe directed at Muslims, Islam. But the line that we draw is when it happens to Jews, when it turns into antisemitism. That is not a consistent position. That is an extremely self-defeating position. So I just am also extremely angry and frustrated with the pro-Israel and neoconservative…
new video loaded: The Antisemitic Coalition Emerging in the G.O.P.transcriptBacktranscriptThe Antisemitic Coalition Emerging in the G.O.P.The MAGA coalition has been fighting over Tucker Carlson’s interview with the white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes and where to draw the line on antisemitism. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the political writer John Ganz argues that the interview represented the intersection of two archetypes of antisemitism and what he calls “the creation of an actual antisemitic politics.”This interview between Fuentes and Carlson is this almost textbook —— “And I absolutely agree with you. I would say, though, that the main challenge to that, a…
Sometimes I think the internet is a giant Ouija board, and we use it to summon things and things appear through it. So if you want to be supernaturalist about it, if you want to be Christian about it, the world is inhabited by powers and principalities and demonic forces which have it in for us, and which want to turn us away from God. That’s their purpose. There’s something very spiritually dark about the internet, actually. I mean, just on a practical level, we see chatbots persuading teenagers to kill themselves. We have all sorts of dark, horrible stuff…
Readers respond to a front-page article about fetal heart monitoring and C-sections. Also: When Shirley MacLaine was the understudy. Source link
U.S. Treasury and Taiwan Central Bank agree to avoid exchange rate manipulation Source link
US Treasury, Taiwan reaffirm pledges against currency manipulation Source link